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21) Streaking
Author
Publisher
PS
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
For hundreds of years the male members of the Kilcannon family have considered themselves to be the beneficiaries of distortions in the statistical distribution of chance, associating their most fortunate windfalls with visual distortions that they call "streaks." This belief has led to the accumulation of a vast heritage of superstitions--rules which, if broken, might allegedly terminate the privilege.
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Little princess: The pampered daughter of a British officer is left in a boarding school when her father goes off to war.
Bowery blitzkrieg: A young boy turns to boxing as a way to get off the streets, only to discover he's being hustled.
23) Queen of hearts
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[p1998]
Language
English
Description
Congressman Kiel Whellen had been chosen by the President himself to negotiate with terrorists during an airline hijacking, but in the tragedy that he failed to avert, Kiel's love perished.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
For a gambler locked in a claims war, the stakes are life or death! A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town -- and the black gold beneath it. And Fat Man is willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. The pair will have to work hard and work together to force-feed...
25) Texas sheriff
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010, c1934
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, mysterious Shirley Randolph stood at the faro table and gambled like a man. Watching her, Sheriff Curt Thompson suspected that she could also ride like a man, rob like a man, and shoot like a man. But he wondered whether she could also love like a woman. Curt was on the trail of the Trackless Bunch - phantom gun-slicks who killed for sheer sport. Did Shirley's slim white finger sometimes trigger those wanton guns? Was she devil or angel?...
Author
Publisher
Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Fairburn, successful screenwriter, ex-husband, and absent father, has been given six months to live. He resolves to stake half his fortune on a couple of turns of the roulette wheel and, to his agent's disgust, to write a novel-about death. In the casino he meets his muse. Charlie grows as addicted to writing fiction as she is to gambling.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Kid thinks he's the best 5-card stud player in town, but The Man has never been beaten. It is therefore inevitable that they go head-on, and what a game it will be: a non-stop, stud poker duel-to-the-death to decide who will be the reigning king of the New Orleans gambling world.
28) Bet the house: how I gambled over a grand a day for 30 days on sports, poker, and games of chance
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
29) Texas blue
Author
Series
Whispering Mountain novels volume 5
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Determined to marry into a respectable family, gambler Lewton Paterson, sets his sights on Emily McMurray, one of the McMurray sisters. Unfortunately, Emily has no intention of ever getting married, especially to a man like Lewt.
34) High stakes
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamor hide a dark and violent past as an extractor--a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life"--
35) The card counter
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of an ex-military interrogator and gambler who sees an opportunity for redemption when he is approached by a young man seeking revenge on a military colonel.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A blistering novel of violence and deliverance set against the mythic backdrop of the Mississippi Delta. The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred-year-old antebellum house, all gone. And so is the woman who gave it to Jack, the foster mother only days away from dying, her mind eroded by dementia, the family legacy she entrusted to Jack now owned by banks and strangers. And Jack's mind has begun to fail, too. The decades of bare-knuckle...
Author
Series
Cabot Sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her stepbrother's fiancée threatens to steal away her inheritance, Honor Cabot conspires with the illegitimate son of a duke to ruin the woman's reputation, but working in close quarters with such a rogue has its dangers ... and its pleasures.
40) Prince of fools
Author
Series
Red Queen's war volume 1
Publisher
Ace Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Hailed as "epic fantasy on a George R. R. Martin scale, but on speed,"* the Broken Empire trilogy introduced a bold new world of dark fantasy with the story of Jorg Ancrath's devastating rise to power. Now, Mark Lawrence returns to the Broken Empire with the tale of a less ambitious prince... The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire dread her like no other. For all her reign, she has fought the long war, contested in secret, against...
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